fortune telling theme
There is a character or object (e.g. a fortune cookie) that purports to be able to divine other characters' future fates, through mysterious means.
Examples
Fortune teller Abner Suggs assailed Captain Lindemann with with a number of unsolicited soothsayings in the "Night Gallery" story "Lindemann's Catch" (1972).
17 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tz1959e2x07 | choice | It seems the point of the story was to demonstrate how fortune telling works on our minds. |
| talesoftheunexpected8x02 | major | Struggling fortune teller Madame Myra gave a card reading to Charlie. She saw in his future that he was going to inherit a lot of money and then die, so she duped him into marrying her. |
| tftc1989e2x01 | major | Cathy made the mistake of consulting the accurate, but untrustworthy fortune teller Madame Vorna about her love life. |
| tz1985e1x14c | major | The fortune cookie fortunes at a mysterious Chinese restaurant came true. |
| tz2002e1x24 | major | Ali became utterly reliant on the coffee house fortune teller Kneigh. |
| ahh3x09 | minor | In his intro, Alfred Hitchcock spoke of how his plan reader advised him to open a butcher shop after reading his thumb. |
| ahp7x29 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock feigned to tell the viewer's fortune using a giant novelty pearl as a crystal ball. |
| columbo1971e8x04 | minor | The divination art of "I Ching" was being experimented with at the thinktank. |
| movie: Bicycle Thieves (1948) | minor | The wife had visited a seer of some sort and later Antonio did too. |
| movie: Natural City (2003) | minor | Gongbang interpreted the signs on two sticks to mean that there would be an "unavoidable bond" in Cyon's future. Cyon went on to form just such a bond with R. |